Page 9: Historical Events In May - 01

1934  Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35 on May - 01.   

1935  On this day in history boulder Dam completed   

1935  Canada's first silver dollar is circulated on May - 01.   

1935  Royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V on May - 01.   

1936  Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades on this day in history.   

1936  On May - 01 fBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis   

1937  FDR signs act of neutrality on this day in history.   

1937  Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1939  Batman Comics hit the street on this day in history.   

1939  Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling) on this day in history.   

1940  On this day in history 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship   

1940  The 1940 Olympics are cancelled on this day in history.   

1941  On May - 01 "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York   

1941  On this day in history allied evacuation from Greece completed   

1941  General Mills introduces Cheerios on May - 01.   

1941  German assault on Tobruk on May - 01.   

1941  On May - 01 orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY   

1941  John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 on May - 01.   

1942  On May - 01 japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India.   

1942  On May - 01 radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"   

1942  Townsville put on invasion alert on May - 01.   

1943  On May - 01 final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins.   

1943  On May - 01 food rationing begins in US   

1943  On May - 01 german plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta   

1943  On May - 01 german Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes   

1943  Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871) on this day in history.   

1944  On this day in history messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight   

1944  On May - 01 pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)   

1944  On this day in history surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails   

1945  On May - 01 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide   

1945  Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government on this day in history.   

1945  Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast on this day in history.   

1945  Australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan on this day in history.   

1945  General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms on May - 01.   

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1218  John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257) was born on May - 01.   

1218  On this day in history birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)   

1238  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on this day in history.   

1285  On May - 01 birth of edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)   

1493  On this day in history birth of phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)   

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on May - 01.   

1567  On May - 01 birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

1577  On May - 01 birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

0408  On May - 01 death of arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)   

1118  Death of Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080) on this day in history.   

1171  On this day in history dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies   

1240  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on May - 01.   

1277  On this day in history stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies   

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on May - 01.   

1447  On May - 01 louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on May - 01.